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The United Nations has classified Cyclone Idai as the worst tropical cyclone to have hit the southern Africa region in decades. The strong winds and torrential rains have put the region in a state of crisis, causing huge losses of life; flattening buildings; triggering massive floods that damaged....

MAPUTO. – Fulai Joaquim has enough food to feed his 10 children for another week, maybe two. Then, he says, it is in the hands of God. A cyclone ripped his cassava crop from the ground, leaving the roots to rot in the field, and the floods that followed washed away his maize.

Cyclone Idai tore through central
Mozambique
flooding an estimated 700,000 hectares of agricultural land leaving many farmers with nothing to harvest, plunging hundreds of rural communities into a food crisis. Fulai Joaquim has enough food to feed his 10 children for another week, maybe two.

Rumbidzayi Zinyuke / George Maponga, Harare Bureau. A high level Cyclone Idai reconstruction and resettlement taskforce has been put together to facilitate the effective resolution of challenges faced by the disaster management teams in the affected areas.

More than 700,000 hectares of farmland were flooded and food prices shot up after Cyclone Idai, leaving many rural communities facing crisis. By Stephen Eisenhammer. NHAMPUEPUA,
Mozambique
, April 1 (Reuters) - Fulai Joaquim has enough food to feed his 10 children for another week, maybe two. Then, he says, it is in the hands of God.

Nhampuepua,
Mozambique
— Fulai Joaquim has enough food to feed his 10 children for another week, maybe two. Then, he says, it is in the hands of God. A cyclone ripped his cassava crop from the ground, leaving the roots to rot in the field, and the floods that followed washed away his maize.

A cyclone ripped his cassava crop from the ground, leaving the roots to rot in the field, and the floods that followed washed away his maize. “There have been a lot of tears,” said Joaquim, 45, as he trudged past the small plots of land that hug the mud and stick homes of Nhampuepua, also destroyed by the storm.

Fulai Joaquim has enough food to feed his 10 children for another week, maybe two. Then, he says, it is in the hands of God. A cyclone ripped his cassava crop from the ground, leaving the roots to rot in the field, and the floods that followed washed away his maize.

By Stephen Eisenhammer. NHAMPUEPUA,
Mozambique
(Reuters) - Fulai Joaquim has enough food to feed his 10 children for another week, maybe two. Then, he says, it is in the hands of God.
A cyclone ripped his cassava crop from the ground, leaving the roots to rot in the field, and the floods that followed washed away his maize.

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi, speaking in the ruined central city of Beira, on Thursday evening, announced measures taking immediate effect to speed up the reconstruction of Beira and all other cities, towns and districts affected by cyclone Idai, which struck central
Mozambique
a fortnight ago.

| The Independent | Tropical Cyclone Idai struck the Sofala ‘province of
Mozambique
in the waning hours of March 14, causing damage and flooding that could make it one of the worst weather disasters to ever hit the Southern Hemisphere. Idai left Sofala with what resembled an inland ocean stretching....

The destruction left in the wake of Cyclone Idai has been nothing short of devastating. Millions of lives have been torn apart. Entire villages have been submerged. Families have lost everything. But there is one consequence of the crisis that receives far less attention: the effect that it will have on girls.

People
killed
: 501; People injured: 1,523; Houses damaged or destroyed: 99,317; Crops damaged: 669,903 hectares; People affected: 1.85 million ZIMBABWE. On March 16, the storm hit eastern Zimbabwe, where it flattened homes and flooded communities in the Chimanimani and Chipinge districts. People killed: 185, according to government.

Jason Kennedy. A Concern worker has described scenes of “complete desolation” following a visit by boat to villages and towns cut off by flood waters in one of the worst hit areas along the Malawi/
Mozambique
border. ‘Complete devastation’ Concern's Gavin Douglas has spent the last week documenting the emergency response to Cyclone Idai in Malawi.

. Thursday March 21 2019. Locals stand beside a damaged section of the road between Beira and Chimoio in Nhamatanda district, central
Mozambique
, on March 19, 2019, after the area was hit by the Cyclone Idai. PHOTO | ADRIEN BARBIER | AFP In Summary. Five days after a vicious tropical storm tore....

In this Tuesday, March 26, 2019, photo, an elderly man lies on the ground after his bag of food was snatched from him in a scramble for bags of rice delivered by the South African Airforce helicopter at Nyamatande Village,
Mozambique
, following the devastating Tropical Cyclone Idai.

In this Tuesday, March 26, 2019, photo, an elderly man lies on the ground after his bag of food was snatched from him in a scramble for bags of rice delivered by the South African Airforce helicopter at Nyamatande Village,
Mozambique
, following the devastating Tropical Cyclone Idai.

In this Tuesday, March 26, 2019, photo, an elderly man lies on the ground after his bag of food was snatched from him in a scramble for bags of rice delivered by the South African Airforce helicopter at Nyamatande Village,
Mozambique
, following the devastating Tropical Cyclone Idai.

Long-term effects of cyclone IDAI are anticipated to lead to atypically high food asistance needs. Key Messages. Category 4 Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall on March 14th over central
Mozambique
with winds sustaining 170 kilometers per hour (Km/hr) and over 300 mm of rainfall in 24 hours.

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. The devastation caused by Cyclone Idai has left already vulnerable girls at even greater risk. In responding to the crisis, the needs of girls must be a priority.

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